Clogs, it seems your hat knows a thing or two- I lifted the spool on and off a couple of times and did notice a twist in the frame in the order of 1cm or so. It hadnt affected my prints yet as they have all been low profile. I will try a tall print later this week to see how it fares, but a new spool bracket is definitely a top priority now! Thanks for the heads up- it had never even crossed my mind :D
Zerker, I had switched filaments to do the E-steps fine tuning, as using the translucent blue is nigh on impossible to accurately see whether there are minute gaps between the lines or not. Thankfully DiamondAge had sent some other sample colours along too. Have attached a couple of the calibration pieces.- pretty happy when the basic settings are used (though I had to slow down the speed from the Slic3r defaults for now). Phone camera is pretty terrible, but the green one is done with 0.2mm layer height, and I stopped it early so you can see the infill at 95%.
My only problem is that the filament extrusion speed seems to vary during filling, leading to light/ dark patches with the translucent filament, or slight gaps with the opaque filament. Not sure if that is due to the hobbed bolt not being uniform or not- I cant seem to pin it down to a particular rotation of the extruder gear or not. Time for trial and error...
The bed is just attached with 4x M3 30mm machine screws and C510 springs. It seems to be working pretty well, though one corner of the plywood was 3mm higher than the other 3, so I had to really crank that down to get it level. Might do a large single layer print tonight to see how the relative levels are faring. I have standard nuts at the moment, though I may get some Nylock ones to make sure that vibrations dont mess things up in the long run.
Zerker, I had switched filaments to do the E-steps fine tuning, as using the translucent blue is nigh on impossible to accurately see whether there are minute gaps between the lines or not. Thankfully DiamondAge had sent some other sample colours along too. Have attached a couple of the calibration pieces.- pretty happy when the basic settings are used (though I had to slow down the speed from the Slic3r defaults for now). Phone camera is pretty terrible, but the green one is done with 0.2mm layer height, and I stopped it early so you can see the infill at 95%.
My only problem is that the filament extrusion speed seems to vary during filling, leading to light/ dark patches with the translucent filament, or slight gaps with the opaque filament. Not sure if that is due to the hobbed bolt not being uniform or not- I cant seem to pin it down to a particular rotation of the extruder gear or not. Time for trial and error...
The bed is just attached with 4x M3 30mm machine screws and C510 springs. It seems to be working pretty well, though one corner of the plywood was 3mm higher than the other 3, so I had to really crank that down to get it level. Might do a large single layer print tonight to see how the relative levels are faring. I have standard nuts at the moment, though I may get some Nylock ones to make sure that vibrations dont mess things up in the long run.
